Religion

Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 12

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies

Religion

MOuntaines shall move, the Sun his circling course
Shall stop; Tridented Neptuae shall divorce
Th' embracing floods from their beloved Iles,
Ere heaven forgets his servant, and recoyles
From his eternall vow: Those, those that bruise
His broken reeds, or secretly abuse
The doubtfull Title of a rightfull Cause,
Or with false bribes adulterat the Lawes,
That should be chaste, these, these, th' Almightie hath
Branded for subjects of a future wrath;
Oh, may the just man know, th' Eternall hastens
His plagues for trialls; loves the child he chastens.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 12.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/639/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 12.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/639/.

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